Just because it’s fall doesn’t mean there aren’t any anime cons happening. In October and November, you’ll find anime cons all over the place – hopefully there’s one happening near you! Here’s our massive list of anime cons – please be sure to check out their respective websites for details! Continue reading “Anime Conventions for October/November 2009″
I was watching a bunch of (gasp) anime music videos (AMVs) yesterday, and had an idea for a new column: Wednesdays should become AMV Day!
Today’s theme is ‘most watched’. Now this isn’t scientific by any means, and this week was quite simple to begin. Basically I searched YouTube for AMVs and sorted it by views and came up with a video by silvermoon377 that has almost 2.5 million views! Here’s the epic video:
Haruhi Suzumiya AMV – She’s Just Oblivious
If this works, I’d like to get more creative with the categories. So if you’d like to submit an AMV theme or video, please do so in the comments!
UPDATE: An alert reader found this site that’s already doing ‘an amv a week’ thing, but ours has a twist! And it will be in english! We’ll be featuring things like:
While we figured that even those who aren’t fans of Japanese animation are readily familiar with Voltron and Robotech, there are dozens of both TV and film titles that employ these (usually) human-operated machines. Below is a small sampling of our mecha anime picks…Continue reading at LAWeekly.com
Liz Ohanesian is a Los Angeles-based journalist covering music, media and club culture. She is a staff writer for Club World and her work regularly appears in such publications as the L.A. Weekly, Razorcake and Outburn. She has written for such publications as Punk Planet, PopMatters, Santa Monica Mirror and others. Follow her on Twitter!
Sunday, I headed out to the convention to check out one of its highlights, a performance from Jishin Taiko Ensemble…Continue reading at LAWeekly.com
Liz Ohanesian is a Los Angeles-based journalist covering music, media and club culture. She is a staff writer for Club World and her work regularly appears in such publications as the L.A. Weekly, Razorcake and Outburn. She has written for such publications as Punk Planet, PopMatters, Santa Monica Mirror and others. Follow her on Twitter!
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